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If you want to Add entries in your GNOME Menu follow this simple steps

First off, right click your applications menu and hit "Edit Menus"

The Menu editor will appear . In the left panel select the category like accessibility, Debian, accessories etc. The right panel will update with the entries in that category.

After you have selected the category, click on the New Item Button

Another dialog will appear, thats where you will make the actual entry.In this case I will add a Firefox entry.

First of all select what type of application it is. You can select application or application in terminal, both are quite self explanatory, you can also select a file.

Fill name with the application name or whatever you want. Fill command with the applications command, in this case its firefox. If you selected file in the first box instead of application, you can browse for the file or just add the path to it.

Comment is rather self explanatory.Now, select an icon by clicking the button to the left, in this case since i haven't selected one yet It sais no Icon

13 thoughts on “Howto Add entries in GNOME Menu”

hi
How can I create a menu entry for a sh script?
I have a program which I downloaded from the internet that provides a startup sh script. I can launch the program fine if I navigate to the folder with nautilus and then double-click the sh file icon. I’d like to create a menu entry for this app but when I do it and then click my new menu entry nothing happens.

@ricardo silva:
When launching an .sh script, the working directory is probably your home directory. If the shell script is located somewhere else and requires relative paths (e.g. Java classpath stuff) this can cause problems. In that case a workaround is to modify the shell script to manually cd into its own directory before launching executing the actual command.

Alacarte (aka Menu Editor) really sucks. It is far and away my least favourite thing about Gnome (and, therefore, about Ubuntu). It has pretty much the worst usability of any Gnome program I’ve ever used, frequently fails to work properly, and makes the most awful mess of crap in the configuration files (which I have to go and hand-edit when it screws something up). Part of the problem is Alacarte itself, and part of the problem is the freedesktop.org menu specifications and standards. But it adds up to a real p.i.t.a.

@santhosh – probably your best option is to edit /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu – but make sure you make frequent backups – it’s far from intuitive.

Could someone please help me. After installing Ubuntu 10.04 i ma trying to add a new menu within the Application Menu list. I can add the menu calling it “Security Tools”, it displays as a folder. BUt when i check the box to enable it it automatically unchecks itself. I notice that if i try to check other entries they also uncheck themself. I am logged ina s root. Any help please??
Thanks
Stu

Nope. Still does not work. Added the new application to menu, but will not run. Nothing happens. Also never shows up in Application Finder despite going to the trouble of reinstalling with Synaptic Package Manager.